gistfile1.js

 var Book = Y.Base.create('book', Y.Model, [], {}, {
    ATTRS : { // use the normal attribute config here, including the validation & parsing (setter)
      author : {},
      title : {},
      publisher : {}
    },
    EDITORS : { // define editors for each key here
      author : {fn : Y.Model.EDIT.Choice, cfg : {choices : [...]},
      title : Y.Model.EDIT.Text
    }
    RENDERERS : { // similarly define render methods for each key here 
    }
  });

  var ds = new Y.DataSource.Local({source : data});
  ds.plug(Y.Plugin.DataSourceArraySchema); // resultFields will be derived from the Model

  var qm = new Y.QueryManager({source : ds, model : Book}); // sets up the ds to return its data as models
  var dt = new Y.DataTable({cols : ['author', 'title', 'publisher']}); // Optionally set cols here if you don't want to display all
  qm.after('dataParsed', function (e) {
    dt.setRows(e.data); // e.data being an array of Book instances
  });

  // what's nice here is the query manager could then store the query state and subsequent/
  // requests only need to send what's changed (eg: qm.sendRequest({page : 2}))
  qm.sendRequest({
    page : 1,
    perPage : 50,
    col : 'author',
    dir : 'asc'
  });